More than 52 years after EPRI was born as a result of a massive North American blackout, EPRI Current host Samantha Gilman speaks with Eamonn Lannoye, Director, EPRI Europe and Sean McGuiness Senior Technical Executive, EPRI Europe, to discuss the recent power blackout in Spain, Portugal and parts of France. The whole system went down in five seconds. What do we know about why it happened? What do we not yet know, and why can it take time to fully understand the root causes? Are observers jumping to conclusions before all the data is in? Lannoye has been a frequent contributor to international media stories about the event. He and McGuiness share their expertise on the series of events and caution about drawing conclusions too quickly.

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EPRI Webcast of Initial Findings from April 28, 2025 Iberia Blackout

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EPRI Current examines key issues and new R&D impacting the energy transition. Each episode features insights from EPRI, the world's preeminent independent, non-profit energy research and development organization, and from other energy industry leaders. We also discuss how innovative technologies are shaping the global energy future. Learn more at www.epri.com

Danielle Jablanski, Industrial Control Systems Strategist & Subject Matter Expert at CISA, joins the Nexus podcast to discuss her perspectives on critical infrastructure protection and government's role as a cybersecurity partner on implementation guidance and enablement.

Danielle touches on a number of areas of CI security and protection, ranging from the challenges arising from the high percentage of private sector ownership of critical infrastructure, to the assistance available from CISA and other agencies to lesser-resourced entities in the 16 CI sectors.

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Schneider Electric Vice President of Supply Chain Security Cassie Crossley joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the nuances of hardware security and the growing need for hardware bills of materials (HBOMs) within critical infrastructure.

Cassie covers the use cases and features that matter most within an HBOM, some of the threats and weaknesses they can illuminate for users, and how they can change the current status quo for CI sectors that have concerns about the provenance of hardware components and the threats they pose.

Cassie is an experienced cybersecurity technology executive in information technology and product development and author of “Software Supply Chain Security: Securing the End-to-End Supply Chain for Software, Firmware, and Hardware.”

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Zero Trust expert Stefan Sebastian talks us through the process of Zero Trust in critical OT networks like substations - and explains why this will be the make segmentation obsolete.

Andrew Harris with system integrator ACS explains how cybersecurity fits in with equipment safety as part of a risk assessment, and the use of digital twin tech and safety PLCs as part of the safety risk assessment process.